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chiefly in cotton, hats, and whips. The cotton trade gives
employment to numbers of persons engaged in spinning and
hand-loom weaving. The markets are well supplied with almost
every thing that can gratify the palate of the gourmand, and
rates so low as to render it, in these respects, a very
desirable place of residence for persons of limited fortune,
but accustomed to luxurious indulgences. The Grammar School,
founded by Bishop Smith, affords an opportunity of obtaining
an economical English and classical education. With regard
to institutions for promoting the education of the poor,
supplying their necessities, whether in food, or medicine,
or medical attendance, the Infirmary, the Dispensary, and
House of Recovery, the National School, the Lancastrian
School, and others, fully attest that Carlisle is no whit
behind the most favoured towns. It is also an excellent
place whence conveyance may be obtained to all parts of the
kingdom; mails daily leave the city for Portpatrick and
Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London by way of Leeds and
Manchester; besides several other stage-coaches. The
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway offers opportunities four
times a-day of travelling between those places; and from the
canal basin, a swift fly-boat conveys passengers to Bowness
on the Solway, whence they can be comfortably and safely
conveyed to Liverpool either by the Royal Victoria or
Newcastle steam-packets, in a single tide.
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